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benjamin

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About Me

brood too much, love cheerios straight out of the box, bikram yoga addict, dream in technicolor, green tea and kombucha are my friend, i would love to bitch slap George W. Bush, someday I will own a villa in Tuscany, life is simply one extended choreographic assignment, i don't understand dog people, thrifting is therapeutic for the soul , all nations should interchange war initiatives with peace initiatives, Martha Graham was certifiably crazy, there is nothing sexier than a well-dressed man, i will make dance that will change the world......i'm currently a full-time company member with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. we're a multi-generational company of contemporary dancers, choreographers, teachers, and facilitators that believe dance is something for everyone. our work extends to some of the largest opera and theatre houses in the world, as well community centers, retirement homes, hospitals, schools, and correctional facilities, etc. - nationwide and on an international scale. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

contemporary fiction/ a good glass of cabernet/ foreign films/ long hot bubble baths/ fall fashion/ installation art/ sunshine/ yoga/ The New York Times Sunday Edition/ the NAKED green superfood smoothie/ crazy comtemporary (modern) dance/ felines/ NPR public radio/ Josef Pilates, Joan Skinner and Ida Rolf/ green tea/ thunderstorms/ weekend brunch/ international travel/ politics/ thrifting

I'd like to meet:

myself in ten years/ my father/ my artistic idols - Kara Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Pina Bausch, Federico Fellini, Bjork, Egon Schiele, Paul Thomas Anderson, William Forsythe, Stitch, Alice Munro, Pedro Almodovar, Robert Bly, Diane Arbus, Miles Davis/ just "good people"

Music:

Billie Holiday/ Ella Fitzgerald/ Miles Davis/ Ben Folds/ Coldplay/ Rufus Wainwright/ Spoon/ Modest Mouse/ Angie Stone/ Jill Scott/ Hot Hot Heat/ Sleater-Kinney/ White Stripes/ Gorillas/ U2/ Nina Simone/ Joni Mitchell/ Carole King/ James Taylor/ Nick Drake/ Elliot Smith/ Death Cab for Cutie/ Killers/ New Pornographers/ Shins/ Keane/ Tori Amos/ Fiona Apple/ Sufjan Stevens/ Bloc Party/ Jenny Lewis/ The Submarines/ Hem/ Damien Rice/ Norah Jones/ Mika/ Amy Winehouse/ Regina Spektor/ Imogen Heap/ Corrine Bailey Rae/ John Legend/ Mars Volta/ Flaming Lips/ Kings of Convenience/ Radiohead/ Bjork/ Beatles/ Dixie Chicks/ Velvet Underground/ John Mayer/ Beck/ Decemberists/ Aimee Mann/ Joshua Radin/ Ray LaMontagne/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs/ Guster/ Arctic Monkeys/ Sondre Lerche/ Arcade Fire/ Scissor Sisters/ Killers/ Snow Patrol

Movies:

Magnolia/ Me, You and Everyone We Know/ Yes/ Shawshank Redemption/ L.A. Confidential/ American Beauty/ Garden State/ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind/ Dancer in the Dark/ Talk to Her/ Being John Malkevich/ Wonder Boys/ Waiting for Guffman/ Maria Full of Grace/ Network/ The Tripletts of Bellville/ Syriana/ Brokeback Mountain/ Cache/ Dogville/ Topsy Turvy/ The Constant Gardner/ Requiem for a Dream/ Elephant/ Children of Men/ Nashville/ Sunset Boulevard/ Lost in Translation/ The Royal Tennenbaums/ Pan's Labrynth/ Volver/ Scanner Darkly/ The Ice Storm/ I 3 Huckabees/ Hedwig and the Angry Inch/ The Hours/ Michael Clayton/ Fur/ No Country for Old Men

Television:

over it...... except for Weeds

Books:

Written on the Body/ The World According to Garp/ Cold Mountain/ The Line of Beauty/ Anhil's Ghost/ To the Lighthouse/ The Feast of Love/ Howards End/ Truth and Beauty/ The History of Love/ You Remind Me of Me/ Blood Memory/ Under the Banner of Heaven/ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close/ The Year of Magical Thinking/ Atonement/ On Beauty

Heroes:

Liz Lerman

My Blog

Ellen Robbins Fired

DTW's Eviction of Ellen RobbinsA Total Turn-around of the DTW Mission(Editor's Note: After more than 30 years of giving renowned children's creative movement classes at Dance Theater Workshop, interna...
Posted by benjamin on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:54:00 PST

READ THIS!!!!!!!!

Obama Gets Honest About Small Town America's Decay, Elitists Lash outBy Jane SmileyApril 14, 2008.When Barack Obama tells the truth about conditions as we know them Hillary takes the low road.You know...
Posted by benjamin on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:39:00 PST

Dance Magazine - Wendy Perron article on Genome

Can Dance and Science Merge Artistically in Performance?posted by Wendy Perron on Monday, Apr 14, 2008Well if anyone can do it, Liz Lerman can. I just saw her Ferocious Beauty: Genome at the Kasser Th...
Posted by benjamin on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:33:00 PST

Firings at the Voice

Firings at the VoiceBy CLAUDIA LA ROCCO; Compiled by Peter EdidinPublished: March 29, 2008The Village Voice has dismissed its dance critic, Deborah Jowitt, leaving the weekly with no full-time staff d...
Posted by benjamin on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:30:00 PST

Out on a Limb

Dance is the artform of the 21st century. So why has the LA Times decided it no longer needs a critic? By Judith Mackrell Thursday March 6, 2008The Guardian Lewis Segal, chief dance critic of the Los...
Posted by benjamin on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:54:00 PST

something to think about (old reprint)

A Veteran Dance Writer Surveys the Scene. By Elizabeth Zimmer.(Re-print from Movement ResearchPerformance Journal 30)As I write it is late August, 2006. I have just been laid off from my14-year stint ...
Posted by benjamin on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:25:00 PST

Love, etc.

Dance Lerman's 'Love, etc.': A Special Delivery ..>    ..> By Rebecca J. RitzelSpecial to The Washington Post Saturday, February 16, 2008; Page C04 Ah, those Valentine's Day croon...
Posted by benjamin on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:17:00 PST

READ IT

The Literalists By Tere O'ConnorCopyright 2005 Tere O'Connor In the August 8 & 15, 2005 issue of the New Yorker, Joan Acocella wrote an article entitled: Mystery Theater: Downtown surrealists. I...
Posted by benjamin on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:03:00 PST

Genome Review from Toronto

A stunning commentary in dancing DNAPAULA CITRONSeptember 29, 2007FEROCIOUS BEAUTY: GENOMELiz Lerman Dance ExchangeAt Premiere Dance Theatrein Toronto on ThursdayPrint Edition - Section Front Enlarge...
Posted by benjamin on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:54:00 PST

Village Voice Review

DanceDigitized RupturesA multimedia performance entraps and repeats life's dark momentsby Deborah JowittSeptember 11th, 2007 4:54 PMLoop Diver: Rush, pose, holdOscar SolI'm guessing that a lot of you ...
Posted by benjamin on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:34:00 PST